Copied Material Displays Differently

Copied Material Displays Differently

jay_clancy
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Copied Material Displays Differently

jay_clancy
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Hi All,

 

Why is a material I'm simply copying displaying differently? (it doesn't seem to matter if it's renamed or not, it still displays differently even though it's only being copied).

 

Original material:

Material Low.PNG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copied Material:

Material Mid.PNG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How they display (copied material is scaled much larger):

Material Realistic.PNG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only difference I can see in the material settings is the copied material has this as '0' whereas the original material states '1' here:

jay_clancy_0-1712652486426.png

 

Is this just some kind of file corruption? How can I resolve this?

Thanks in advance!

 

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hmunsell
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Are you Duplicating material and asset or Duplicating using Shared Asset?

hmunsell_0-1712664448484.png

 

Are the texture editor settings the same for both Relief and Cutout?

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jay_clancy
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Hi, thanks for your response.

 

I don't have those different options?

jay_clancy_0-1712742101857.png

 

I don't see how they can't be the same when all I'm doing is duplicating one?

jay_clancy_1-1712742214430.png

 

 

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hmunsell
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What version of Revit are you using? my screen shot was from 2023. i forget when they updated that to have the 2 options. 

 

when you duplicate a material, in 2020 for example, it does not make a unique copy. The duplicate uses the same "Asset" in the new material. To make a unique material, the Asset has to be duplicated too. 

hmunsell_0-1712748782169.png

 

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jay_clancy
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Hi, yep I understand that. That isn't the problem I'm highlighting here.

 

What I'm showing is that an entirely matching material is displaying differently for no reason.

 

Bizarrely, if I scale the duplicate material's cut-outs to 20% of the original it looks correct - but there's no reason it should require this:

 

jay_clancy_0-1712750832947.png

 

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hmunsell
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Your correct, that is bizare... would you be able to uplad the model this is happening in so we can take a look at it?

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